Check out the guides section of the course website for
Starting with two historical examples, and their modern renditions…
Using the Du Bois spiral to show the demographics of whites in seven states:
Green is urban, blue suburban, yellow small town, red rural. Source
See http://projects.flowingdata.com/atlas, by Nathan Yau
Source: American Community Survey, 5-Year, 2009-2013
ggplot2 provides an R implementation of The Grammar of GraphicsSee, e.g. Data Sketches
by Simon Scarr in 2011
The same data, but different design choices…
Some examples from the past few years…
Lots of companies, cities, institutions, etc. have started design guidelines to improve and standardize their data visualizations.
One I particularly like: City of London Data Design Guidelines
First few pages are listed in the “Recommended Reading” portion of this week’s README.
Choose your colors carefully:
matplotlibmatplotlib and available by defaultFor quantitative data, these color maps are very strong options
Almost too many tools available…
Note: no easy way to get legend added to the plot in this case…